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The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience
W. B. Carnochan
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Description for The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience
Paperback. This book examines the current debates about the curriculum in historical context and offers considerations for the future. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JNKC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 241.
'The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the first magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987) are among the latest and most politically inflammatory manifestations of a 'crisis' that this book demonstrates has been going on for two centuries. In contrast to the heated polemics and hyperbole of current debates concerning the role of higher education in the United States, this eloquent, balanced, and witty book seeks to bring sense to a volatile subject by reminding us that controversy has always ... Read more
'The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the first magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987) are among the latest and most politically inflammatory manifestations of a 'crisis' that this book demonstrates has been going on for two centuries. In contrast to the heated polemics and hyperbole of current debates concerning the role of higher education in the United States, this eloquent, balanced, and witty book seeks to bring sense to a volatile subject by reminding us that controversy has always ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804723640
SKU
V9780804723640
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Reviews for The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience
"An excellent contribution to the debates on the university dominating American education today. The author provides an incisive, objective analysis of the conflict over liberal education's place and function in the university curriculum. A chronological approach is used to examine the continuous crises and curricular wars over liberal education's role."
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